Movie #737 ........................."Amour"

Movie #737 "Amour" winner of the Palm d'or from the Cannes this year, nominated for best picture and nominated for best foreign film --- yet, I did not enjoy watching this film at all. The style is much like a documentary in that you are watching all the tedious, heartbreaking moments of the decline in health of the wife, while the husband, who can hardly walk himself, finds he must care take more and more and more everyday until he just can't take it any more. Until the audience can't take it any more. The message is loud and clear --- this is many of us looking at our future ---- the way the last act plays out for us, and it's not a happy one at all. But my question is......... Why do we have to see this? Why do we have to stew on it? Why do we have to study it in so much detail as this film provides...So if you agree, you don't need to see this film. It's way too sad, with maybe one or two minutes of glimmers of hope out of the 2 hours and 7 minutes of sadness, weariness, and tediousness it offers to its viewers. I give it 3.8 stars out of 5 In this 2012 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Georges and Anne, retired music teachers in their eighties, have a time-tested love. But as Anne's health fails, Georges becomes her caregiver, and the couple's bond is tested like never before. Cast:Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud, William Shimell, Ramón Agirre, Rita Blanco Genre:Foreign, Indie Dramas, Romantic Dramas, Drama